It follows growing concerns of cheating in the east London borough, involving the creation of bogus voters at a series of addresses.

*shocked face*

In a letter to the commission’s chairwoman, Jenny Watson, the councillors said: “We write to you as a matter of urgency to demand action be taken about what we believe to be serious abuses of the electoral register and gross voting malpractice in Tower Hamlets.

“In particular we are concerned at the unprecedented number of households that have recently signed up for postal votes in the borough. This was evident last week during the Spitalfields and Banglatown by-election.”

Oh ho! A clue?

“We are aware of instances where people who no longer live at an address are still being sent postal votes and their votes have been cast. We are also aware of instances where postal votes have been collected from voters.

“Similar activities are occurring in Weavers ward, where a by-election will be held on May 3. Other elections are also due and their integrity may be compromised.”

And just what do TH have to say about it?

Tower Hamlets said in a statement: "…it is important not to confuse fraudulent activity with a register that changes by up to 20 per cent a month because we have a population that is highly mobile - our borough includes a high proportion of students and restaurant workers."

Hmmmm, I think Cambridge and Oxford are similarly afflicted with ‘a high proportion of students’.
Should we expect the same level of voter fraud there, too?

I can't help strongly suspecting that there is particularly nasty bit of backroom dealing behind this. I mean the move to wider postal voting. Step forward all ivestigative journalists. I mean elephants not only habe long memories but like to ask for things in return for not running amok.

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The missiles are there to protect the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets from attack by Israeli aircraft.A very nice residents association (called Hamlets-Hezbollah ) has agreed to man the installations for the Olympic duration. this will save the taxpayers considerable amounts of debt (sorry, pounds).

The postal voting system was deliberately knobbled by Labour as a) a sop to the Moslems so they didn't have to let their womenfolk out of purdah and b) on the understanding that all those shonky votes would be cast to get Moslem Labour councillors in. Of course to point this out risks being labeled as some sort of -phobe by the usual suspects, but do a Google search on such prosecutions as have been brought and tell me the statistics lie.